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Title	:	The Bell
Author	:	Iris Murdoch
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 296 pages
Published	:	2001 by Penguin (first published 1958)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. European Literature. British Literature

The Bell Paperback | Pages: 296 pages

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A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell, legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. Michael Mead, leader of the community, is confronted by Nick Fawley, with whom he had disastrous homosexual relations, while the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercises discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved, whatever that may mean....Iris Murdoch's funny and sad novel has themes of religion, the fight between good and evil, and the terrible accidents of human frailty.

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Original Title:	The Bell
ISBN:	0141186690 (ISBN13: 9780141186696)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Dora Greenfield, Paul Greenfield, Peter Topglass, Toby Gashe, Catherine Fawley, Nick Fawley, James Tayper Pace, Mark Stafford, Margaret Stafford, Patchway, Father Bob Joyce, Sister Ursula, Mother Clare, Noel Spens, Michael Meade
Setting:	Imber Court, Gloucestershire, England(United Kingdom)

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I liked this book immensely, but other readers may find it dated. It was published in 1958 and tackles through the character of Michael Meade the Church's dictum on homosexuality. We are quickly introduced to the main theme when our hero Michael confesses to the Abbess of Imber Convent, his past involvement with Nick Fawley. The Abbess advises - there is never anything wrong with love .Her answer, however, elides Michael's main concern which is - what about physical love, and opens the book to

This was the first Iris Murdoch novel I read, many years ago now, and straight away I was hooked. For months afterwards I was obsessed with her books, and read them one after the other. Her appeal is both simple and complex. Murdoch is a great storyteller, a brilliant inventor of plots. Typically, her stories start out like realistic novels of English life, only to become increasingly bizarre, with outrageous entanglements of relationship and motive, recognitions, reversals, melodramatic

Another amazing book from Iris Murdoch. She managed once more to bring up some questions about types of behaviour in this life, in a very londonese-like spirit, gently uncovering mysteries of human nature.

"There is a story about the bell ringing sometimes in the bottom of the lake, and how if you hear it it portends a death."The Bell is an early philosophical novel by Iris Murdoch, the Irish academic and Oxford professor of Philosophy, who also wrote in total 26 novels. This is her fourth novel, first published in 1958. The first of her novels to be shot through with ethical considerations, The Bell remains the one novel in her entire output where the moral conundrums are the most explicit. Until

This is the first novel by Iris Murdoch that I have read. It was the authors fourth novel, published in 1958. The story begins with young wife, Dora Greenfield, who, having left her husband, Paul, is now returning to reunite with him. Paul Greenfield is staying at Imber Court, while studying fourteenth century manuscripts at Imber Abbey, a Benedictine Convent. The lay community at Imber Court is headed by Michael Meade. The group of people staying at Imber include a young student, Toby Gash,

Opening lines: Dora Greenfield left her husband because she was afraid of him. She decided six month later to return to him for the same reason. The absent Paul, haunting her with letters and telephone bells and imagined footsteps on the stairs had begun to be the greater torment. Dora suffered from guilt, and with guilt came fear. She decided at last that the persecution of his presence was to be preferred to the persecution of his absences. Well, colour me intrigued by this passage and

'This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. - Shakespeare, HamletThe setting for The Bell is Imber Court, a palladian country mansion that is home to an Anglican Benedictine commune in Gloucestershire, just outside the walls of an Anglican convent. The Imber commune consists of a group of lay, religious people who seek a retreat from the world to live, for a spell at least, an ascetic and pious life. Life here is